Prince George's County, MD Short-Term Rentals: Repeat Violator Strikes (2026)

County Code Sec. 5-174(i) defines a short-term rental 'Nuisance' three ways: a knowingly created or maintained condition that is a code violation significantly affecting neighbors, diminishing property values, or obstructing others' use of their property; a property where the occupant has been convicted under Criminal Law Article Sec. 10-201 or 10-202 for conduct at the address; or, most commonly invoked, a property to which police or other law enforcement agencies have responded to complaints or calls for service three or more times within any 30-day period.

Once that three-call threshold is hit, Sec. 5-175.07(d) lets DPIE immediately issue a violation notice or administrative citation, or suspend or revoke a short-term rental license, without first running through the standard notice-and-cure process used for other license violations. The same enforcement section extends the Department's reach to noise, traffic, and physical-activity complaints tied to the rental, and Sec. 5-175.07(e) adds a separate immediate-revocation trigger whenever a Building Code stop-work or stop-use order has been issued for the address. Sec. 5-175.07(h) backs the license action with a civil fine of not less than $1,000 per violation, on top of the suspension or revocation itself, and DPIE must notify the host and every hosting platform that lists the property once a license is pulled, under Sec.

5-175.07(g). A host who loses a license this way can appeal to the Administrative Hearing Unit within ten calendar days under Sec. 5-175.08(a), but the appeal does not automatically restore the ability to keep operating while it is pending.